Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] what be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the enterprise of confirming what was a causal circumstance for something else is not remotely like some hopeless speculation into the whole natural history of a thing , or even a stretch of it . |
| 2 | The relevant section in the 1990 Broadcasting Act defines the criteria for deciding what is a licensable programme service . |
| 3 | Although physicists are having some difficulty in deciding what are the fundamental particles of which matter and energy are composed , they seem to agree that there are fundamental particles . |
| 4 | So I prefer to have regard to the expert evidence of today in deciding what is the ordinary authority of a solicitor . |
| 5 | A Duxbury calculation could not by itself provide the answer as to the sum to which the wife was entitled , though it produced a figure to which the judge was entitled to have regard in deciding what was the right answer . |
| 6 | In determining what is a legitimate interest the librarian can safely rely upon one guide only — the law of the land . |
| 7 | We begin this section by providing a brief introduction to its calculation in the private sector , as this complements our discussion in the previous section and is a useful preface to considering what is an appropriate rate for public sector investment opportunities . |
| 8 | Kandel and his colleagues began by asking what was the neural circuit which underlies the gill and siphon withdrawal response . |